What to Cook When You Don't Feel Like Cooking: Make It Fast

Why it caught our eye

Some evenings, the question isn't what we'd like for dinner. It's whether we can possibly summon the enthusiasm to make dinner at all.

Enter Caroline Chambers, who understands that dilemma beautifully. Her wonderfully practical approach to cooking is all about delicious food without unnecessary fuss, mountains of dirty dishes, or ingredients you'll never use again.

Following the success of her first cookbook, What to Cook When You Don't Feel Like Cooking, Caroline is back with Make It Fast, offering 100 more appealing, satisfying dinners that require no more than 30 minutes of hands-on preparation. Her recipes are clever, flexible, and full of shortcuts that actually make sense.

We especially love her suggestions for substitutions and variations, because real-life cooking rarely goes precisely according to plan. There's something enormously appealing about opening the refrigerator, seeing what you've got, and knowing that a very good dinner is still entirely possible.

A wonderful addition to the well-read kitchen, particularly for busy families, reluctant weeknight cooks, and anyone who's ever looked at the clock and wondered what on earth to make for supper.

Details

• Author: Caroline Chambers
• Hardcover, 272 pages
• 100 complete-meal dinner recipes
• No more than 30 minutes of hands-on time per recipe
• Includes ingredient substitutions, shortcuts, and variations
• Recipes organized by preparation time
• Helpful indexes organized by ingredient and occasion